Education and Study · Blog · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Turning a Text into a Podcast with NotebookLM
Simon Willison tested Audio Overview, which generates a conversation between two hosts about your documents.
- Profession
- Student, Content Creator
- Tools
- NotebookLM
- Source
- simonwillison.net ↗
- Country
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Report date
- September 29, 2024
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
He fed NotebookLM a text and listened to the generated "podcast."
How it went
The episodes run about ten minutes.
Good to know
Review it: the audio can distort the original content.
The prompt
(Upload your PDFs to NotebookLM) Focus of the audio summary: [audience], explain [topic] with examples from Brazil and without jargon.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Found a mistake?
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